northern pocket gopher

Related to northern pocket gopher: Thomomys talpoides

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northern pocket gopher - greyish to brown gopher of western and central United States

pocket gopher, pouched rat, gopher - burrowing rodent of the family Geomyidae having large external cheek pouches; of Central America and southwestern North America

genus Thomomys, Thomomys - western pocket gophers

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Comparative diets of nesting Golden Eagles in the Columbia Basin between 2007-2013 and the late 1970s

The northern pocket gopher (Thomomys talpoides) is a montane species that is widely distributed in mountainous areas of Colorado and ranges eastward onto the plains only on the divide between the Platte and Arkansas rivers.

Geographic relationships of pocket gophers in southeastern Colorado

The 38,000-acre monument protects North America's highest sand dunes--rising more than 700 feet--and endemic species such as the Great Sand Dunes tiger beetle, Ord's kangaroo rat, and the northern pocket gopher. Nearly 200,000 acres of private, state, and federal land surrounding the monument are being considered for inclusion in the site because increasing development pressures threaten to divert stream drainages that cause the dunes to form.

CENTRAL ROCKIES

from the northern pocket gopher. Thomomys talpoides.

New host records for Eimeria geomydis Skidmore, 1929, from Geomys (Rodentia: Geomyidae) and redescription of the oocysts from Geomys bursarius

The Deer Mouse (Peromyscus maniculatus) and Northern Pocket Gopher (Thomomys talpoides) were secondary to voles as part of the rodent diet of the Barn Owl.

Diet of the Barn Owl in Northeast and Northwest Oregon

Thomomys talpoides (northern pocket gopher) is represented in the Dust Cave fauna by a single element that is only tentatively identified.

Late Wisconsin mammalian fauna from Dust Cave, Guadalupe Mountains National Park, Culberson County, Texas

However, no differences in infiltration were observed between sites with mounds of the Northern Pocket Gopher (Thomomys talpoides) and mound-free areas, though this may have been due to the gophers' habit of plugging up large sections of their burrows beneath the mounds (Zaitlin et al., 2007).

Badger (Taxidea taxus) mounds affect soil hydrological properties in a degraded shrub-steppe